image: inhabitat
Ever since the fact hit the news that Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron are designing this year’s summer pavilion of Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens I was really curious about the result. Not because of the big names but because of this image about them ‘designing the new pavilion for Serpentine’.
This picture just seems to be so honest for a moment, no star architect, star designer poses (not as if Weiwei would be one who is posing all the time..), no efforts - just three man building a tower of half full wineglasses and having fun in what they do. It is like a stolen moment of fragility indicating me that the pavilion will have something to do with this capricious little moment of joy.
image: Iwan Baan
Then the plans were published and I was sort of disappointed. Okay, it is nice that they were able to resist the temptation not to multiply one of their previous works (not as other pavilion designers earlier…) And after all the concept of the pavilion is quite cool, discovering and showing the layers of the previous pavilions and making a huge reflecting surface of water on top and all these in a really elegant and moderate way, but where is the spirit of that picture?
image: dezeen
But then a few days earlier finally I have seen the first images of the completed structure with the poetic ‘water roof’ and the little dumb cork seats and I just could not stop smiling. These cork seats are as if they were transformed from that table full of fine food and culinary joy (the number of cork seats demonstrating the number of bottles of wine consumed during that night – according to my interpretation) and the sophisticated reflecting surface together are just a perfect match for me. And of course I am aware that most probably it all has nothing to do with the whole design but still this vision made me more connected for a while.
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